Since Bush already has the National Guard on the Mexican Border, Schwarzenegger needed to send his Guardsmen somewhere else to do a photo op for himself.
I believe this is applicable:
"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishible from malice."
Ditto on the particle filters. There's a certain specification for masks used to limit the spread of infection (I don't remember it offhand and my First Responder manual's at school, perhaps someone else with emergency medical training knows) which is better suited than most masks. Also, the first mask should go on the patient, especially if its the only mask, since it'll cut down the number of pathogens significantly for the most amount of people.
It's sad that no one looked in on him for that long. To start smelling like that takes a bit, and it sounds like he'd been there for a while.
My grandmother is Danish and when we celibrate Christmas at her house we always pull the Christmas Tree out into the center of the room, link hands in a circle around it, and dance (walk) around the tree singing carols. I'm told this is a Danish holiday practice, though since my Great-Grandfather wasn't very religious/superstitious from what I've been told (didn't like the whole state religion thing Denmark had going), I'm not sure if this really is Danish or just something that got picked up.
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Tina: One the reasons that people keep bringing up your "loathing" of tabbed browsing is because you keep disparaging it without giving any real reasons for disliking it. For many with faster internet connections, tabbed browsing is an aide to multitasking and/or blogging, and is reguarded as the best thing since the transistor. We can't imagine anyone outside of Redmond, WA, not liking it. I'd give you the full un-sales pitch, but you've heard it already.
Randalph: Thanks for the "Command-+" tip - I tried a "Ctrl +" in Firefox and the site just got a lot more readable. I'm normally up for reading the smaller text, but my monitor is growing crankier by the month and it's making small text hard to read.
My view of a blog is a means of disseminating information and/or opinion. That I was "reared" on Blah3, Kos, Atrios, and the like probably gave me that spin. As much as I like my own aestetics, I'd rather that my own blog be read than get passed over for being unreadable. When I redid my blog I heavily modified its older Blogger template in order to, among other things, increase the size of the text and make it contrast more with the background.
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